Observe the image and answer the following question.
The eighteenth-century folio in the image depicts a Rajput ruler touring the countryside while on his way hawking. Which ruler is it?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Maharana Jagat Singh II
Option (1) Maharaja Ram Singh I — Incorrect. He is the Kota ruler shown hunting lions at Mukundgarh, not touring the countryside to hawk.
Option (2) Maharana Jagat Singh I — Incorrect. Jagat Singh I ruled Mewar from 1628 to 1652, when the Jagat Singh Ramayana was painted; the hawking folio shows a ruler of 1734–1752.
Option (3) Sawai Jai Singh — Incorrect. He was the Jaipur ruler who founded the city of Jaipur in 1727.
Option (4) Maharana Jagat Singh II — Correct. The Mewar folio shows Maharana Jagat Singh II touring the countryside on his way hawking.
NCERT (2026-27): “Mewar School of Painting …A folio depics Maharana Jagat Singh II (1734–1752) touring the countryside while on his way hawking. The country scape perceived in an oblique view, with the horizon raised at a tangent in comparison to the foreground enables the artist to visualise a panoramic view of limitless vision. The relevance of the scene lies in its complexity of narration that also aims at reportage.”
Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar hawking, 1744, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
